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

Any place that we love becomes our world.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.