The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .