The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

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.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.