Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.