What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.