A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.