A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.

It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.