Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.