There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

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

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

To think of losing is to lose already.

... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is at all sensitive, for people visit upon the postman all their first annoyance at receiving a couple of bills when they looked for a love-letter, and if a packet is insufficiently stamped they hand over the pennies as though to a despicable bandit, too outrageous to be denied, too groveling to be feared.

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

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.