Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.