If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it
Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.