It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.