All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.