No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

You can never know enough about your characters

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.