Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.