But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.