An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

Women of the world crave excitement.