The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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 soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The only sin is stupidity.