The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.