Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.