If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?