It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of
himself, can end sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, enjoy them and dominate them.
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
Those who have much are often greedy.
There is no sin except stupidity.
I can resist anything except temptation.
The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an ass of himself, he is poaching on their preserves.
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
Women are a fascinatingly wilful sex. Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.