“The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.”

“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.”

“Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.”

“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”

“We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.”

“Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall”