Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

Change, change,--we all covet change.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.