My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
But, like all happiness, it did not last long.
Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been