What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?
Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.
We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.