Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death.

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie

nothing is slower than the true birth of a man

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily