Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

We live in a world we ourselves create.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are his established property, and he loves in them himself, and the labor he has bestowed on them. The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.