The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

If I am not I, who will be?

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.