America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

Most people are boring and stupid.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.