Youth is the only thing worth having.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.