Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.