All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.