Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.