Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

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

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.