I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.