What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. - Logan Pearsall Smith

Few things are more shocking to those who practice the arts of success than the frank description of those arts.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

What draws us to him so closely is that he combined a disillusioned estimate of human nature sufficient to launch twenty little cynics, with a craving for love and sympathy urgent enough to turn a weaker nature into a benign sentimentalist.