In their hearts women think that it is men’s business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

Journalists are like dogs, whenever anything moves they begin to bark.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.