Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.