When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. When good Americans die they go to Paris. Appearances It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
All art is quite useless.
Belief I can believe anything as long as it is incredible. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. To many, no doubt, he will seem blatent and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business.