“Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.”

“The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.”

“The right to be alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man”

“You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.”

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization”

“If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.”