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

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.