I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

…[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

…nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbor chooses.

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you….a subtle and immortal spirit.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

alcohol played the midwife

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and thepessimist fears this is true.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.