Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.