In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.