“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”

“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”

“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”

“The most splendid achievment of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.”

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”