It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.