The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.