You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.