The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.