Information upon points of practical politics.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.