People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

To be popular I must be mediocre.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.