A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.