I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.