Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development

I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked.

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.

Their own second and sober thoughts.

Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.

I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.