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

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.