Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.
Art does not imitate, but interpret.
Good council has no price.
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
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.
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.