Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

To see the world is to judge the judges.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

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.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.