The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

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

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.