As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.