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.

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.

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.

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

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.