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

There is no diplomacy like candor.

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

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.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

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