Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

The poor are only they who feel poor.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.