“Practice precedes perfection.”

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

“I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.”

“The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.”

“They are more cunning than practical. When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy.”

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”