The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.