If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

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?

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

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