There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.