Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.

Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance.

Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.

It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

What is virtue? Reason in practice.

Oh death you can wait keep your distance.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product.

For the purpose of pursuit not to be stated is to invite threatening danger

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

Good marketing offers us a view of the world. Bad marketing offers us a product to buy.