The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.