Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.