“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile”

“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.””

“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude ”

“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair”

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life ”

“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”