The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.