To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.