Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense. . . .
I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
The proper study of mankind is woman.
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
It love is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
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