Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.