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.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

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.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.