It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.