When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.