All art is at once surface and symbol.

The best revenge is to live well.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.