When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin
The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
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 must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.