The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky.