Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.