Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.

It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.

Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

It would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something.

Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.

All I was was a mechanism.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

I can never really enjoy being famous.