Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

A kiss may ruin a human life

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.