In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.