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.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

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.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

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

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

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.