Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But >>
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. >>
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. >>
A book should be luminous not voluminous. >>
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable >>
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. >>
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.