...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.