It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even capable of forming such opinions.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Anchor keeps the ship in one place. But that is not what ships are made for!

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.