If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

Many try to force the past to change.

Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.