A hard life improves the vision.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.

The less you speak, the more you will hear.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

We didn't love freedom enough.

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.