Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.