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.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

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

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.