The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.