No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time

La vérité légendaire, c’est l’invention ayant pour résultat la réalité.