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.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.