It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.