The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.