Not everyone can be an orphan.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.