It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.