Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Bad manners make a journalist.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.