Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.