One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.