A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper, it's not War and Peace anymore; it's comic-book stuff. Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.