This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

His features made him look striking, and I wondered if that was actually his personality.

Peace isn't the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and people...

Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.

The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.