Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ou…

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.