I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.