Respectability Offends My Taste.

The View That Honesty Is Something, And Even A Virtue, Belongs, It Is True, To Those Private Opinions Which Are Forbidden In This Age Of Public Opinions.

Egoism Is The Very Essence Of A Noble Soul.

Talking Much About Oneself May Be A Way Of Hiding Oneself.

It Is Not A Lack Of Love, But A Lack Of Friendship That Makes Unhappy Marriages.

The Sensible Author Writes For No Other Posterity Than His Own--that Is, For His Age--so As To Be Able Even Then To Take Pleasurein Himself.