Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?

...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline?

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.