Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

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

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.