It is only through timidity that states are lost.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.