Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our...
History should be written as philosophy.
Indeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
The little may contrast with the great in painting but cannot be said to be...
He was a great patriot a humanitarian a loyal friend provided of course...
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to...
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of...
Better is the enemy of good.
It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the...
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not...
If God created us in his own image we have more than reciprocated.
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air the void or...
If there were no God it would be necessary to invent him.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made...
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers but no one was born with a...
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I have never made but one prayer to God a very short one: 'O Lord make my...
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he...
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
The superfluous a very necessary thing.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Nature has always had more force than education.
