Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.