Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. — Logan Pearsall Smith. American-born British essayist and critic (1865–1946)
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.