Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.