Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.