Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.