When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.