Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.