I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.

I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.