When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

To think of losing is to lose already.

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

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