Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.