A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

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

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.