There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.