Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.