Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.