It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
Reason should direct and appetite obey.
They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it – men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.