Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.