A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.