The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.