But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

No one conquers who doesn't fight.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in …