Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.