The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.