Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.