Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.