Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.