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

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

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

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

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.