Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.