There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
The secret of life is in art.