It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late