Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

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.

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

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.