Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.