Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.