Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.