Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

The religion of humanity is love.

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. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

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.