We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

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.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

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.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.