"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."
"The path of genius is free, and its own"
"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."
"the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!"
"Rules and models destroy genius and art."