Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.
Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.
I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.