Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms