“I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me”

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

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

“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.”

“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some ”

“Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave”