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...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.
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A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
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