It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.