Truth does not need to borrow garments from error. (Also translated as: Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.)

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night!

Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm wi…

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; Where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.