Sanity is madness put to good use.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.