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.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

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

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.