A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?