Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.