The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

The youth is the hope of our future.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

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.

She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.