The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.