Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
It is personalities not principles that move the age.
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.