What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.