There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."