As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.