“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“I adore persons better than principles and persons with no principles more than anything else in the world.”
“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”
“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.”
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”