Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.