The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.