It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.