Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.