To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.