... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.