Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.