What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Send
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
One should never take sides in anything. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?
All influence is negative... but there is nothing worse than a positive one.