Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.