The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.