The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another mans I mean.

Mere life is a luxury, and the color of the grass, of the flowers, of the sky, the wind in the trees, the outlines of the horizon, the forms of clouds, all give a pleasure as exquisite as the sweetest music to the ear famishing for it.

To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes.