How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.