If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.