What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they are better.
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow.
Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
An eternal smile is much more wearisome than a perpetual frown. The one sweeps away all possibilities, the other suggests a thousand.
To disagree with three-fourths of England on all points is one of the first elements of vanity, which is a deep source of consolation in all moments of spiritual doubt.
Women live by their emotions and for them, they have no philosophy of life.
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have a fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
There is only one thing worse than injustice, and that is justice without her sword in her hand. When right is not might it is evil.
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in art.