"Virtue is insufficient temptation."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."

"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."

"Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life."

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."

"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."

"The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number."

"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."

"The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language."

"The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer."

"I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."