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.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.