Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.