We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.