Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.