Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.

Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.

The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.