Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

The only way to be totally free is through education.

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