One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.