Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life; and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn’t know how to handle money is to give him some.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.
A man’s interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.