Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.