Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey. Goof should struggle with evil; truth should struggle with falsehood; freedom should struggle with slavery; love should struggle with hatred. Life is movement, a walk along the way of life to the fulfillment of those ideas which illuminate us, both in our intellect and in our hearts, with divine light.

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.