If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Man alone can enslave man.