Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.