The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

Party politics is now a real farce.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!