He had violent passions, and on occasion desire seized his body so that he was driven to an orgy of lust, but he hated the instincts that robbed him of his self-possession. I think, even, he hated the...
You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed not by his misdeeds, but by circumstances over which he had no control. His wickedness was an irrelevant acciden...
The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
You cannot write unless you write much.
They will notdisappoint you, and you will look upon them morecharitably. Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and eac...
He was thankful not to have to believe in God, for then such a condition of things would be intolerable; one could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless.
He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out...
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
He did not like old people, and resented it when he was invited to meet only persons of his own age, and the young he found vapid.
And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would...
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform somethi...
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.'Well, I...
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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...