The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.