Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.