Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
From Logan Pearsall Smith
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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.
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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