The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.