In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.