Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.