Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Authority is quite degrading.