Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.