That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.
But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.
Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic
...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet. [we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.
No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.
The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.