"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 path of genius is free, and its own"
"Rules and models destroy genius and art."
"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy."
"the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!"
"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."