And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another. - Jerome K. Jerome

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men — more so, if possible.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.