Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.