I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.