I'm always pleased to know my relatives have been insulted. It is the only link I have with them. Relatives are simply a tedious bunch of people who haven't the slightest idea of how to live, or the slightest inckling for the right time to die.
I can't aboid detesting my relatives. I suppose it derives from the fact that no one can stand our having someone else's flaws.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
I am not sure that foreigners should cultivate likes or dislikes about the people they are invited to meet.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As far as civilisation goes they are in their second.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.