Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

We are the hero of our own story.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.