Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

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

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 word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.