I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.