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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.


Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.


What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?


Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.


He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.


The newest books are those that never grow old.


There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.


What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.


Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.


If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.


Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.


How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!


Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.


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.


What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?


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.


There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.


There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.


The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.


Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.