All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.
The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.