The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.