The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.