Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

I create my social existence by earning and spending.

Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.

Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.