It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.