You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation’s nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.