Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what without this book he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Wisdom too often never comes and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Reality is merely an illusion albeit a very persistent one.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument a continuation of political intercourse a carrying out of the same by other means.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry an inquiry I trust not merely speculative but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So if you don't give to people in need you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.

Too often travel instead of broadening the mind merely lengthens the conversation.

Travel instead of broadening the mind often merely lengthens the conversation.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says but to go off with him and travel in his company.