The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

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

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

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

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.