If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
All criticism is a form of autobiography
In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!