A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

We cannot live, sorrow or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.