When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.