A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?