"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience."

"Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"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."

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