There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.