stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

the only revenge worth having is success.

Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.