Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.