An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

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.

Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.