"Persons without minds are like bad weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more b…"

"The very beginning of the soul’s purgation is tranquility, in which the tongue is not given to discussing the affairs…"

"I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor. I've given people the light pleasures, shown the…"

"People come home after a day's work, from which they derive little satisfaction, and feel the need for diversion and …"

"The inhabitants have a right to take their amusements in a lawful way."

"They have a secret instinct which impels them to seek amusement and occupation abroad, and which arises from the sens…"

"In our bourgeois Western world total labor has vanquished leisure. Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, t…"

"Where the company are real gentlemen and men of education, you will see no flute-girls, nor dancing-girls, nor harp-g…"

"What a man is by himself, what accompanies him into solitude, and what no one can give to him or take from him is obv…"

"We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields."