A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

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

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.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

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.

Art is both creation and recreation.