Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.