As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.