The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

There is only one good sex. The female one.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.