In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

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.

Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

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

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.