The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.