What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
Promise is the capacity for letting people down.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.