To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and p…

First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second…

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a l…

When you take a bath, you are civilized, when you don't take a bath, you are cultured.

Flaner est une science, c'est la gastronomie de l'?il. Se promener, c'est vegeter; flaner, c'est vivre... Flaner, c'est jouir, c'est recueillir des traits d'es…