Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.