Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

With knowledge grows doubt.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.