Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

Life is fired at us point blank.

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.