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

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

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

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

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

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

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