We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.