Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.