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.

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.

The religion of humanity is love.

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

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

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.