The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

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

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.