“The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.”

“Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain unless one can ... do big things.”

“If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.”

“The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.”