To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.