America is a young country with an old mentality.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

Habit is stronger than reason.

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.