I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.

The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.

Seek to know thy sacred soul.

Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

Few things move as quietly as the future.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.