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.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

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

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

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.