In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood
Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends-those were the fascinating things in life.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
You are a sceptic. Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith. What are you? To define is to limit.
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.