One must be something, in order to do something.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.