The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.