One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.