Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
All men are married women's property. That is the only true definition of what married women's property really is.
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. As a man sows so let him reap.
Nothing refines but the intellect.
It is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind.
The man who regards his past is a man who deserves to have no future to look forward to.
Just as it is only by contact with the art of foreign nations that the art of a country gains that individual and separate life that we call nationality, so, by curious inversion, it is only by intensifying his own personality that the critic can interpret the personality of others; and the more strongly this personality enters into the interpretation the more real the interpretation becomes, the more satisfying, the more convincing, and the more true.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
All women become like their mothers: that is their tragedy. No man does: that is his.