I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.