I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.