“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

“We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.”

“The poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen, i.e., what is possible as being probable or necessary...Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”