Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.