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

You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.

We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.

At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.