From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.

Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.