And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.