Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

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

The art of life is to show your hand.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

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

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.