I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.