Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness an...
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and...