“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Power“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
Men“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Power“Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.”
Age“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”
God“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
God“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”
Men“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”
Great“Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.”
God“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
Age“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”
Time“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
God“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.”
God“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
Imagination“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”
Art“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
Architecture“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
Courage“Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”
Smile“To love beauty is to see light.”
Beauty“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
Good“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.”
Time“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”
Men