An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.

It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.

Love to the love tear, even too, same evil, Attempt, without strength and armor, To reach the unreachable star.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.