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

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.