Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.