There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

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

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

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

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.