In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
