What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.