I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.