The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.