"When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself."
"The Governor was strong upon/ The Regulations Act:/ The Doctor said that Death was but/ A scientific fact:/ And twice a day the Chaplain called,/ And left a little tract."
"The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age."
"Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there."
"What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say."
"Cultivated leisure is the aim of man."
"Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal."
"Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find an expression for joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy."
"Once can survive everything nowadays, except death."
"Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you."