Art does not imitate, but interpret.

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.

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.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

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

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.