Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

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.

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.

To beautify life is to give it an object.