The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.