Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.