“No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.”

“Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature.”

“The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men”

“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.”

“People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and lack of humility.”

“Nothing is more beautiful than freedom, and nothing more grotesque than its molestation.”

“There is nothing more powerful and nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind.”