The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.