Modesty is the conscience of the body.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.