Passion is like genius: a miracle.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Skepticism and faith are no less necessary. Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

One makes mistakes: that is life. But it is never quite a mistake to have loved.

A hero is one who does what he can.