As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.