It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. - Logan Pearsall Smith

The enormous and half-educated publics of present-day England and America… acclaim as masterpieces books that are soon forgotten, while ignoring all that is exquisite and rare.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.