A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.