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

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.

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

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

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

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.