Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.