Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.