For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.