Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

The great artist takes what he needs.

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.