Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.
Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Freedom is a system based on courage.
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.