Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.
Nature teaches us to devour each other and gives us the example of all the crimes and all the vices which the social state corrects or conceals. We should love virtue; but it is well to know that this...
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.