The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.