Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.