To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.