So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
Women are jealous of cigars. . . they regard them as a strong rival.
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
Almost all women have hearts full of pity.
At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.
The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.
I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.