Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.