He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.