It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?