As we to the brutes, poets are to us.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.