No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.