Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

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.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

The best path through life is the highway.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.