All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

People who don't count won't count.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.