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.

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

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

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.