It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.