There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

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.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.