We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.