The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.