There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. — Logan Pearsall Smith. American-born British essayist and critic (1865–1946)
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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.