Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

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

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.