The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

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.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

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.