Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Time itself is an element.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.