The example could encourage others who only fear to start.

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

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!

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.