There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.