All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong... All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong... And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one

Every great man has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything