Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Blame is safer than praise.

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

This surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.