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

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.