His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.