A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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

All women are rebels.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.