"Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache—it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several must…"

"It's curious, I'm much more interested in talking, or to be in touch with the people who think the opposite as I think, than to those who think the same as me."

"Life is too short to remain unnoticed."

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

"Bad taste is a kind of mental gluttony. We shall now dine."