Most people never listen.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.