Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.