Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?