We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. Bu…

I know you. I have heard of you all my life. I know now what a scourge you have been to your country. Instead of killing fools you have been murdering the yout…

The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, a…