The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

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.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.