When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

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.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

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

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!

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.