To wonder is to begin to understand.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.