The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.