The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
I like the word `indolence.' it makes my laziness seem classy.
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.