Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.