Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

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

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

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.