And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.

Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.