Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

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

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

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

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.