Cognition reigns but does not rule.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

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.

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

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.