Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.