Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.