In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

Necessity is God's veil.

Humility is attentive patience.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.