To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.