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.

As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They're both very good things. I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you're ground down by convention. You can't think as you like and you can't act as you like. That's because it's a democratic nation. I expect America's worse.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.