Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.