"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

"The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance."

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

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