Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.