There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.