In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.