If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?