Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.