The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?