"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."

"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."

"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."

"To master the mind is to understand that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us."