love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

A friend's only gift is himself.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.