Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

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

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

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

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.