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

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.

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

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

To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.

No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.