A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.
People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.
All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.
An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.
We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.
Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!
If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.
Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.
Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.
A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.
Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.
When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.
Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.
There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.
There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.
Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.
What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.
Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.
