“I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.”

“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”

“Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.”

“My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”

“unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.”

“I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.”

“Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.”