There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.