A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.