It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Time is but a destination.

The late start is due to the time.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.