Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.