Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.