Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?