I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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

Tough times teach trust.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.