Friends are born, not made.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.