Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features