Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.