A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.