England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.