To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.