Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.