Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and it is content.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.