To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.