I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.