“If one can know how good a city is by its smell, one should know how good a society is by the women's status.”
“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”
“One must ask for death to know how good it is to live”
“I know how to make an impression. Not necessarily a good one.”
“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”
“A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn’t know how to swim finds himself at its bottom!”