The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'

The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.