He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.