For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn