The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.