Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

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

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

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