It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
