Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.