Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.