Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.