All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

White lies are ushers to black ones.

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

Come, my men! never say die while there's a shot in the locker.

In the course of crime ... the descent is rapid.

... secrecy adds a charm to an amour ...

I feel like the queen of the oven! I am the Queen of all oven-dry! Master of heat! You may now address me as "Your Royal Highness"!

So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?""Yes, naturally.

The tragedy of unfulfilling life is that you're already dead but no one pronounced you dead...

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.

As a kid, I always thought the TV was a magic box in the corner of the room.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.