Neckties strangle clear thinking.

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

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

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