If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secr…

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Je crois qu'il faut presque toujours un coup de folie pour batir un destin.