The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit. Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow

Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: "If Paris had a Cannebiere, it would be a little Marseilles" is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.