“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”

“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”

“There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet.”

“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”