The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.