“He who moves not forward, goes backward.”

“The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.”

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

“When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?”

“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”

“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.”