A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.