It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

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

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.