Private information is practically the source of every large, modern fortune.
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Private information is practically the source of every large, modern fortune.
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
Nothing ages like happiness.
Manners before morals!
Life is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
Women who have common sense are so curiously plain...
She certainly has a wonderful faculty of remembering people's names and forgetting their faces.
There is something terribly ungenerous in other people's tragedies.
To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.