One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.