The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.