Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Property is organized robbery.

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.