A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.