It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.