An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

Women always have some mental reservation.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.

The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.