“There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's legs in bed. The posture of the arms is also very important, in order to reach the greatest degree of aesthetic pleasure and mental power. I believe the best posture is not lying flat on the bed, but being upholstered with big soft pillows at an angle of thirty degrees with either one arm or both arms placed behind the back of one's head.”

“A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.”

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

“Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.”

“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”

“Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.”

“All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.”

“Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.”

“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”

“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.”

“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.”