“In Burma it is possible to be a politician without ceasing to be a philosopher.”

“Most of those terms are probably wrong, but a little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”

“To the average modern Russian a desire to visit Pskoff is an inexplicable mental freak on the part of a foreigner who wishes to see something of the country he is living in.”

“It is, indeed, no small triumph to have combined the untrammelled liberty of primeval savagery with the luxury which only a highly developed civilization can command.”

“Bidderdale’s attention was caught by an item on a loose sheet of agenda paper: ‘Vote on account of special Hells.’”

“It takes all sorts to make a sex.”

“The lark would suddenly dash skyward and pour forth a song of ecstatic jubilation that sounded horribly forced and insincere.”

“Much more to be thought about than the enemy over yonder or the war all over Europe is the mud of the moment.”