An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.
We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.