Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.