It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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