Life alone can rekindle life.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.