Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.