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.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.