Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

I would advise a stupid woman always to follow her hsuband - however, a smart woman should rely on her own instincts.

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

I no longer believe in love, " she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits that have vanished.

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

Armies are not only for offensives.

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

Someone left the cake out in the rain

The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.