International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.