The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.