The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.