“Confetti, bonbons, artillery.”

“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.”

“I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely.”

“No man knows he is young while he is young.”

“but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.”

“When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you,be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.”

“But if you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.”