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.
Logan Pearsall SmithEvery author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan Pearsall SmithWe grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Logan Pearsall Smith