There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.