If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.