The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

You can only govern men by serving them.

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

Genuine awe connects us with the world in a new way.

If February give much snow A fine Summer it doth foreshow.

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.