You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.