In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.