no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

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