In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.