The Short Reign of Pippin IV

I have known many people to ask for advice but very few who wanted it and none who followed it.

I don't anticipate trouble and so I anticipate trouble.

You are a good man, Sire, and a good man draws women as cheese draws mice.

It is a matter of disillusion to young male Americans otherwise informed, to discover that the French are a moral people — judged, that is, by American country-club standards.

It is the misfortune of men to want to do a thing well, even a thing they do not want to do at all.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of a loss of power.

The one thing our species is helpless against is good fortune. It first puzzles, then frightens, then angers, and finally destroys us.