I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Never mistake motion for action.