German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.