Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.