A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

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.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.