It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.