"Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness."

"I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them."

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

"A truly popular man is a man who knows nothing about art, and whose brain is as soft as his heart."

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional."