What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

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

The art of life is to show your hand.

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

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

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

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