“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.