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.

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

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

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!

Your own guilt is your own fault.

How was it possible to miss someone when they were standing right next to you?

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

When there is a crisis, that's when some are interested in getting out and that's when we are interested in getting in.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.