[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.