Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

A vocation is the backbone of life.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.