It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

The only object of liberty is life.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.