To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.