You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]
Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers
I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.
It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.
We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.
Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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