The art of life is to show your hand.
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
There is no diplomacy like candor.
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.