A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Speech is civilization itself.

Everything is politics.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.