How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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.