The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.