And if my heart be scarred and burned,the safer, I, for all I learned.
There are two things necessary to salvation money and gunpowder.
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
A subject for a great poet would be god's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for courage.
I will buy any crème, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
When she cried her whole face went to pieces.