The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.