The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

I could live a week on one good compliment.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.