A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.