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.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

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

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.