The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.