The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.