“A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.”

“Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.”

“Let's not bring flame where light is enough.”

“There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is the miracle of genius.”

“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.”

“He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil of events or resolve the prevailing light into a single flame; there was in him nothing of the prophet or the mystic. He was a simple soul who loved, and that was all.”

“There is a way of avoiding which resembles seeking.”