Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.