It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.