It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.