Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.