Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind..

Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, a….

No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the a….

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself..

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext..

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the cl….

Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able f….

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past..