The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.