Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.