A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.