A good collection is more than just the sum of its parts.
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.
A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship.
If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.