The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.
Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.