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

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

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.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.