Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.
Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?
