There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

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

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

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.