It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.