Power Is Pleasure; And Pleasure Sweetens Pain.

Hope Is The Best Possession. None Are Completely Wretched But Those Who Are Without Hope. Few Are Reduced So Low As That.

Dandyism Is A Species Of Genius.

To Be Remembered After We Are Dead, Is But Poor Recompense For Being Treated With Contempt While We Are Living.

A Woman's Vanity Is Interested In Making The Object Of Her Choice The God Of Her Idolatry.

Those Who Speak Ill Of The Spiritual Life, Although They Come And Go By Day, Are Like The Smith's Bellows: They Take Breath But Are Not Alive.