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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.