Date of birth: 1865-00-00
Date of death: 1946-00-00
Quotes number: 38
Nationality: American
Profession: Writer
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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?
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
