Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?