“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”
“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness.”
“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind.”
“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.”
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
“There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness.”
“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.”
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
“Great men are almost always bad men.”
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“When what is ordered by an authority is opposed to the object for which that authority was constituted, one is obliged to disobey it.”
“All that I have written seems like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me.”
“All that is true, from anyone it is said, always comes from the Holy Spirit.”
“A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.”