Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.