Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

The funniest things are the forbidden.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.