Archives - July 2001

I know only two tunes: one is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

My efforts to cut out 50,000 words may sometimes result in my adding 75,000.

I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

People say life is everything, but I prefer reading.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.

Summer days for me/When every leaf is on its tree.

Charm is a way of getting the answer "yes," without ever having asked a clear question.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.

The sun pours out like wine.

Life is an abnormal business.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Once you hear the details of a victory, it is hard to separate it from a defeat.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The softness of the summer day [was] like an ermine paw.

I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten: none are undeservedly remembered.

Art is science made clear.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one also must know against whom.

July was the month when summer, like bread in the oven, might change color, but it would rise no higher. It was at its height.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

The sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

The heat was like a hand in the face all day and night.

Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Forethought spares afterthought.