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

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.