Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.