An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices