| To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. |
| The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal. |
| He who opens a school door, closes a prison. |
| There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. |
| Life is the flower for which love is the honey. |
| Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. |
| To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live. |
| The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. |
| Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. |
| It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. |
| It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. |
| There is nothing like a dream to create the future. |
| Forty is the old age of youth; Fifty the youth of old age. |
| An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. |
| Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face. |
| Nobody loves the light like the blind man. |
| Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. |
| To divinise is human. To humanise is divine. |
| An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. |
| To love is to act. |
