History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.