He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.