All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

In love, you pay as you leave.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

There is no humor in heaven.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.