Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.