I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.