Shopping I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't want

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

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them