Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Good council has no price.

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

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

Labor is the divine law of our existence.