A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.