Of All The Talents Bestowed Upon Men,

The Greatest Advances In Human Civilization Have Come When We Recovered What We Had Lost: When We Learned The Lessons Of History.

There Is A Good Saying To The Effect That When A New Book Appears One Should Read An Old One. As As Author I Would Not Recommend Too Strict An Adherence To This Saying.

I Should Have Liked To Be Asked To Say What I Knew. They Always Tried To Ask What I Did Not Know. When I Would Have Willingly Displayed My Knowledge, They Sought To Expose My Ignorance. This Sort Of Treatment Had Only One Result: I Did Not Do Well In Examinations

Never Yield To The Apparently Overwhelming Might Of The Enemy.

Well, Dinner Would Have Been Splendid... If The Wine Had Been As Cold As The Soup, The Beef As Rare As The Service, The Brandy As Old As The Fish, And The Maid As Willing As The Duchess.