All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

This is no time to be making new enemies.