Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
Dandyism is a species of genius.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.