Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.