Truth is a very complex thing and politics is a very complex business. There are wheels within wheels. One may be under certain obligations to people that one must pay. Sooner or later in political life one has to compromise. Everyone does.
Men can love what is beneath them—things unworthy, stained, dishonoured. We women worship when we love; and when we lose our worship we lose everything.
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
The one advantage of playing with fire is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life fully, entirely, completely, or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.
The truths of metaphysics are the truths of masks.
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it in this world.