People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.