I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
There is no reason for one to display his life to the world. The world doesn't understand.
In married life three is company and two none.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
In my young days, one never met anyone in society who worked for their living. It was not considered the thing.
One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
Nowadays people seem to look on life as a speculation. It is not a speculation. It is a sacrament. Its ideal is Love. Its purification is sacrifice.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
A wasted life is an untimely death.