Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

Familiarity breeds contempt-and children.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals-apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of ourselves and how little we think of other persons.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.