Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.