Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess, but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side - mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!