“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”

“A Puritan is not against bullfighting because of the pain it gives the bull, but because of the pleasure it gives the spectators.”

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”

“My belief is that happiness is necessarily transient. The natural state of a reflective man is one of depression. The world is a botch. Women can make men perfectly happy, but they seldom know how to do it. They make too much effort: they overlook the powerful effect of simple amiability. Women are also the cause of the worst kind of unhappiness.”

“The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.”

“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”