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

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.