If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.

Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.