If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.