It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.

The first casualty in every war is truth.

No sauce equals appetite.

It is a fact, however, that there is no rest for the wicked.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.

She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.

We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.

He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.