In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.