If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.