The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.
A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.
Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.