The ear is the avenue to the heart.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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.