Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.