I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

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

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.