There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.