There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.