My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.