One's only real life is the life one never leads.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.