It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.