Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.