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

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.

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.

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

In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.

To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.