The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.