There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.