Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

A country is known by the way it treats its animals

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.