Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it