Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
How does one cure the soul? Through the senses
When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.